The Long Beach City College football team held its spring game last week, giving local football fans a glimpse of the promising season ahead. The Vikings were a young team last year that finished 8-3, including a blowout win in the Patriotic Bowl Game to end the season. The team divides its roster into evenly-matched […]
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PHOTOS: LBCC vs. Fullerton Softball
We’ve got some great photos of the Vikings’ postseason game with Fullerton taken by Jim McCormack.
Feature: LBCC Men’s Volleyball Wants ‘Second Chance’ At State
The Long Beach City men’s volleyball team heads into the state championship week undefeated and ranked No. 1 in California, just two wins away from a 10thstate championship. Their coach, Jonathan Charette, is also an alum, one who found his life path thanks to playing for the Vikings. “I was a punk, I had no […]
FEATURE: Tyler Jackson Is On Her Way
Tyler Jackson was in the middle of an interview early last Saturday morning, standing off to the side of the Long Beach State sand courts where she became the school’s all-time beach wins leader a few short years ago. Jackson, now an assistant coach at LBCC, was beckoned by her boss, Vikings head coach Misty […]
Catching Up With Misty May-Treanor
Misty May-Treanor is making a mockery of the word “retirement.” Six years after the three-time Olympic gold medalist and NCAA champion announced the end of her playing career, the Long Beach resident is keeping more than busy with family, coaching at Long Beach City College, and starting a new volleyball club. On the family front, […]
LBCC Men’s Volleyball Sweeps LA Trade Tech
The undefeated season for the No. 1-ranked LBCC men’s volleyball team continued on Friday evening, as the Vikings improved to 17-0 with a quick sweep of winless LA Trade Tech, 32-30, 25-15, 25-12. Head coach Jonathan Charette let most of his starters rest in the game, with the state playoffs looming in a week and […]
LBCC Inducts Eight Into Hall Of Champions
Long Beach City College inducted another star-studded class into its Hall of Champions on Friday, enshrining major figures from a number of different sports. The LBCC main gymnasium has long been known as the Hall of Champions, and its lobby includes not only trophies from the state-record 93 state championships the Vikings have claimed, but […]
PHOTOS: Long Beach City College Beach Volleyball
Long Beach City College women’s beach volleyball (13-1, 4-0) won their tenth and eleventh consecutive matches by defeating Mt. San Antonio College (5-0) and El Camino College (3-2) on Friday morning at Granada Beach. Great action shots from our own Stephen Dachman.
Long Beach Rules The Volleyball World
Long Beach has long had a special place in the volleyball world but this spring has seen the city become the center of the volleyball universe. The Long Beach State men’s volleyball team is the unanimous No. 1 team in the nation, the NCAA’s only undefeated team, and has swept every team 14 of their […]
Long Beach City College Weekend Recap
The Long Beach City College beach volleyball team looked like one of the best in California on Friday when the Vikings swept Rio Honda College and Bakersfield College at Granada Beach. LBCC freshman Josannah Vazquez and Sierra Davis used a two-point win to edge their Rio Honda opponents, and swept Bakersfield. LBCC (8-1, 1-0) is […]